Thursday, 15 May 2014

On My DCC Campaign

My own Dungeon Crawl Classics game has only been two sessions, but they were amazing sessions.

My game setting is a world where humanity is nearly extinct, and the
world itself is some kind of immense life-preserver at the end of the
universe; a superspecies trapping the last star left in the universe and
used it to escape the end of all things; only now the super-species is
gone, their AI (“G.O.D.”) has gone senile, his living programs (daemons)
have rebelled, terrible mutations have arisen in the original species,
and everything has basically gone to shit.

The humans had apparently originally been called up to be indentured
farm servants, the elves were supervisors, dwarves worked deep in the
underground “world-machines” and halflings’ role is not clear. But
after the “Ancient Ones” vanished, the halflings became almost-feral cannibalistic bandits in the woods, dwarves were forced out of the deep places by
horrific goblin hordes, tentacle things and their gnomish masters; the
elves continued sleepily into a helpless decadence in their automated
pleasure-domes, very slowly losing all their knowledge and wisdom to
become shallow, self-absorbed drug-addled dilettantes, and the humans
were slowly wiped out by plague, mutation, undeath and attacks by
monstrosities.

Its possible that there’s still other human survivors besides the PCs
out there, there were other human settlements in the time of the
Ancient Ones,and its not clear how they might have fared in the
thousands of years hence; there is even a legend about a great human
city named Arkhome, on the other side of the world.

But the PCs only
know that their village, the last in the five valleys, was overrun by
Zombies; their party survived escaping through a deep tunnel into the
Rose Pleasure Dome of the Elves. Now they’re based there; and recently
helped the Elven Elder (the only one there who more or less still knows
something, or cares about something) to retrieve a Power sphere from the
9th dimension, from the grey men and their dreaded Queen Priscilla.

Unfortunately the absolute earliest we’ll be playing again is late June. It was awesome.